Looking at this thread, there's a correlation between comment quality and LLMs going down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

paimapi 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

tis confirmation bias, thread is full of people who rely heavily on LLMs for work, the rest of us are reading the substantive articles and doing work besides ;)

	▲	glouwbug 12 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Inversely, maybe this is what we're actually all like on HN and LLMs write what we read day to day in these comment sections
	▲	nonethewiser 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I wouldn't even accept the anecdote as true

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stevefan1999 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Usenet and the Internet were generally the domain of dedicated computer professionals and hobbyists; new users joined slowly, in small numbers, and learned to observe the social conventions of online interaction without having much of an impact on the experienced users.

Then the Internet grow explosion happens to a small communuity. Oh boy how do we know what kind of monster it is today.

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layer8 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That means we won’t be able to blame declining comment quality on AI bots in the future. ;)

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andai 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://xkcd.com/810/

> But what will you do when spammers train their bots to make automated constructive and helpful comments?

> Mission accomplished.

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Szpadel 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

does it increase or decrease? :)

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sergiotapia 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

People have been posting this same comment since I first joined this website in 2012. Even then they were lamenting quality, come on.